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The time when such an amendment could have passed is over. There's no longer enough support for it. And the time is coming when, if such an amendment had passed, it would be removed as amendments can be repealed by the same vote that passes them.
They couldn't get the support then, they certainly won't be able to get it now.
Not to mention they would need 38 states to ratify it. Not going to happen.
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That amendment would be just like the one for prohibition. Contrary to document itself and quickly overturned (if passed at all). An amendment to make it lawful to have (and adhere) to a budget would be better.
This would be the 26th or 27th amendment, I think.
Would the conservative movement attmept to revive this, if the USSC rules in favor of gay marraige in the two cases before it?
Seems quixotic, since 2/3rds vote needed to pass out of Congress?
That was a just a GOP marketing ploy to lock in the social conservative vote - like the flag burning amendment and other silliness of that sort. Once the rubes had voted for the Repubs, the issue was quietly dropped.
This would be the 26th or 27th amendment, I think.
Would the conservative movement attmept to revive this, if the USSC rules in favor of gay marraige in the two cases before it?
Seems quixotic, since 2/3rds vote needed to pass out of Congress?
Individual members of Congress might introduce such an amendment for their own purposes (burnishing political credentials in a red district, for example) but the GOP leadership will ensure it dies in committee. But it has absolutely no chance of getting anywhere near 2/3rds of the House and Senate. In 2006, when the GOP had 10 more Republican Senators than it does now, it couldn't even get 50 votes (67 votes are required to pass the full Senate). And it has never passed the House. It also has absolutely no chance of getting ratified by the legislatures of the necessary 38 states.
Same-sex marriage is here to stay. The only questions are:
When will the federal government recognize such state marriages? (the answer is very likely: this summer), and,
When will each of the 41 remaining states allow same-sex marriages? (the answers: some sooner, some later, all eventually)
That was a just a GOP marketing ploy to lock in the social conservative vote - like the flag burning amendment and other silliness of that sort. Once the rubes had voted for the Repubs, the issue was quietly dropped.
The difference being that the flag amendment (specifically, the Flag Desecration Amendment) came very close (within one vote in the Senate) of being submitted to the states, where it almost certainly would have been ratified.
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